It's 24/7 spiritual development on hyperspeed, thanks to the lack of chatter, the lack of internet and smartphone use, and the endless amounts of time spent staring at a wall to center oneself in the moment.

With so much evidence that the popular social networks -- Twitter, Facebook, etc. -- are all that lawyers need to double their existing client base, kick their practice into hyperspeed, and become super-rich and successful, I was initially reluctant to accept a friend's invitation to join yet another social network.

"Fuel For Fun!" chirrups the pay-off line, but what we seem to have here is a compact bundle of signifiers of a desperately over-caffeinated young generation moving at hyperspeed down an X Factor funnel, in lieu of what used to be called "childhood".